Between 17 March 2020, when visitors’ access to the Hermitage was suspended, and the present moment, the overall total number of views for new videos across the State Hermitage’s social media a has exceeded 31,600,000, and including visits to the “Virtual Tour” section of the museum website, there h

The 3 June 2020 will see the start of the project “From Italy to the Hermitage”, created by Italian colleagues as a mark of respect and gratitude for the series of guided tours “From the Hermitage to Italy”.

In Yekaterinburg, construction work is coming to an end on the Hermitage–Urals Cultural and Educational Centre, a large-scale project that includes a display-and-memorial block and another for restoration and storage.

On 25 May 2020, Mikhail Piotrovsky, General Director of the State Hermitage and President of the Union of Museums of Russia, participated in a session of the sub-group on questions of the development of museum and exhibition activities within the State Council of the Russian Federation’s working gro

The State Hermitage and Sberbank of Russia have announced that they are collaborating on a new project – “Artists in Sberbank Online”. The Sberbank Online banking app will include a selection of welcome screens and digital greetings cards featuring paintings by French artists of the late 19th and ea

Researchers from the State Hermitage’s Department of the History of Russian Culture and porcelain restorers have taken part in the online event “IFZ at Home” presented on the social media of the Imperial Porcelain Factory (abbreviated to IFZ in Russian) joint-stock company that told about porcelain

On International Museum Day, 18 May 2020, the Abu Dhabi Culture YouTube channel carried a panel discussion on the theme of “Re-Imagining Museums” organized by the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism.

From 22 May 2020, as part of the Days of Classical Antiquity 2020 festival for pre-school and school children, the State Hermitage is running a new online project – “The Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece at Home and at War”.

At the State Hermitage, the children’s art competition “Encounters in the Hermitage. The Invincible Heroes of Ancient Greece”, which became the chief event of the Days of Classical Antiquity 2020 festival has come to an end. The competition was held online between 10 April and 20 May.

On 18 May 2020, International Museum Day, the Hermitage organized a whole series of events, both on its own social media sites and elsewhere. They were all in one way or another devoted to the life of museums in isolation and their future after it ends.

On 17 May 2020, the 18th annual round table on “The Museum and Problems of Cultural Tourism” completed its work. This year the round table was held in an online format between 2 April and 17 May under conditions of “Cultured Isolation” within a specially created group on the VKontakte social network